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Amazon’s e-book return policy comes under criticism from authors : NPR

By Deanna Schwartz Twitter, June 27, 20225:00 AM ET

A kindle e-book reader is pictured at the Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2015.
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Earlier this month, Lisa Kessler, a paranormal romance author, logged into Kindle Direct Publishing to check her earnings from the previous month. On her publishing dashboard, she saw something she had never seen before in her 11 years as an author: a negative earnings balance.

The reason for the negative balance? Kindle e-book returns.

Authors are protesting Amazon’s e-book return policy, a system they say allows readers to “steal” from self-published authors. Amazon’s current return policy for e-books allows customers to “cancel an accidental book order within seven days.” But, for some readers, seven days is more than enough time to finish a book and return it after reading, effectively treating Amazon like a library.

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In a Mother’s Library, Bound in Spirit and in Print – NYTimes.com

In late March, a few days after my mother died from cancer, I sat in a cold living room in the north of England with my two sisters as a lawyer read my mother’s last will and testament.

We were told that her modest estate would be divided evenly among her three children, with one exception. “Her collection of over 3,000 print books would go to her oldest daughter, Leanne,” the lawyer said.

via In a Mother’s Library, Bound in Spirit and in Print – NYTimes.com.

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Amazon’s Kindle Convert Can Turn Your Paper Library Into E-Books | TechCrunch

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If you’ve been hanging on to those paper books because the idea of having to repurchase them all as Kindle titles is daunting, Amazon has a new option for you: Kindle Convert, a program for Windows that turns print books into digital versions fully compatible with Amazon’s Kindle software, including adjustable font, Whispersync for making sure you’ll be able to go to the furthest read position on any device, and backup in Amazon’s cloud for free, providing access across devices.

There’s a price to pay, however, beyond even the initial $19 that the software download costs (it’s also listed as being $49 at full price): In order to get your books into digital format, you’ll have to actually scan them using a standard flatbed or other type of computer scanner, which means doing things two pages at a time at most. As The Ebook Reader notes, it’s also limited to U.S. customers for now.

via Amazon’s Kindle Convert Can Turn Your Paper Library Into E-Books | TechCrunch.

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Amazon Kindle Voyage review: The best e-reader is also the priciest

“When Amazon introduced an updated version of its flagship Kindle Paperwhite last year, it took the easy way out — after all, tweaked internals, improved software and slightly better lighting do not a thrilling e-reader make. The 2013 Paperwhite wasn’t bad by any stretch, just a bit boring. Now, a year later, Amazon has put together a reader that’s anything but. Say hello to the Kindle Voyage.”

via Amazon Kindle Voyage review: The best e-reader is also the priciest.


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